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ERIC Number: EJ383735
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1989
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What Do We Know now about Ability Grouping? (When the Principal Asks).
Harp, Bill
Reading Teacher, v42 n6 p430-31 Feb 1989
Reviews research on the practice of ability grouping (the grouping of students for instruction by ability or achievement to create homogeneous instructional groups). Notes several negative effects of ability grouping, and discusses the implications of this research for classroom practice. (MM)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Ability, Class Organization, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Instructional Effectiveness, Teacher Student Relationship
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Non-Classroom; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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